Team #8

Eva Yap, Katarina Priecelova, Shannon Lo, Rachel Miller, Mariam Arab, Chuhan Zhang, Zehui Gong, Sophia Chan, Adil Imtiaz, Uyen Nguyen, Lisa Cao, Marion Shadbolt, Raissa Phillibert, Noushin Nabavi

Background

Canadian Vital Statistics published an open dataset on morbidity and life expectancy in July

Data is displayed in tables on the Statistics Canada website

Objective

Make the data more accessible to the general public through various visualizations

Results

Treemaps

Link: https://mshadbolt.shinyapps.io/causes_initial/

Leaflet

Link: https://mshadbolt.shinyapps.io/causes_initial/

gganimate

plotly

Link: https://plot.ly/~emily-gong/5/#/

Link: https://plot.ly/~emily-gong/7/#/

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Summary

Transforming data tables into visualizations make information processing and retention easier for users.

Visualizations with interactive features such as the Tree Maps of Leading Causes of Death and the Map of Life Expectancies Across Canada enable the user to focus on the information they are interested in seeing.

Static visualizations such as plots and graphs show trends that are not intuitively communicated through data tables.

Limitations/Disclaimer

Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut data were not incorporated into the life expectancy visualizations. Statistics Canada published abridged life tables for these regions which provided aggregated data because the three territories were not large enough to enable the calculation of complete life tables with satisfactory accuracy.